Laini Taylor Quotes

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.

[H]ope takes you by the throat like a stranger, it makes your heart leap.

Only in a true life or death scenario can you have mental clearness to know that you cannot feel guilty for surviving.

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

I close my eyes and it's so real and all at once I know just what I feel - And baby it's the kind of rush that terrifies.

The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.

According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.

You're never so alive as after you thought you were going to die.

I had wanted simply to convey to the reader by way of concrete example that life holds a potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones. And I thought that if the point were demonstrated in a situation as extreme as that in a concentration camp, my book might gain a hearing. I therefore felt responsible for writing down what I had gone through, for I thought it might be helpful to people who are prone to despair.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?

Abruptly he thrust his snow-drenched leather gloves against my cheeks. I dodged. A raw carnal feeling blazed up within me, branding my cheeks. I felt myself staring at him with crystal clear eyes... From that time on I was in love with Omi.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

Tonight's the night. It's gonna be alright.

In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

I will survive For as long as I know how to love, I know I'll stay alive.

If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain. If all the world were music, Our hearts would often long For one sweet strain of silence, To break the endless song If life were always merry, Our souls would seek relief, And rest from weary laughter In the quiet arms of grief.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth.